This was on 04 July 2026: after four months of not being able to go for walks due to a sprained ankle I am back walking and feeling pretty good. Remember the Village Shopping Plaza or the Robert Burns Pub, corner of Robert Burns and Cote St. Luc Road? It was finally torn down, the earth levelled, and a few weeks ago construction began on this new building. It will be eighteen floors of condos or apartments, 150 units, two basement floors for parking; as people are getting old they are selling off their homes and buying condos; it makes sense. There has been quite a lot of condo construction in this area and this was one of the few remaining empty lots. I suppose there will be a few stores on street level.
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| Imagine looking out of your living room window and seeing a Hydro tower and live electric wires a few feet away, maybe you'll be able to hear them buzzing ... An article in The Suburban reads: And what about those train tracks? On a regular basis I see tankers, each full of oil, passing within 100 feet of this site. I am reminded of Lac Megantic... I live about five blocks from here and I can hear trains passing.Also of note is the 120-kV overhead high-voltage line within the Hydro-Québec easement behind the building which will be replaced. Hydro’s plans to modernize the grid between 2027-2030 and convert the line to 315 kV, means replacing the current installation with a 65-metre high pylon, and moving the line 10 metres closer to the railway track. The move is required to accommodate the city’s and Hydro’s 27-km green corridor. |
